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<p class="purpose">To keep track of what the default natural language is.</p>

<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP1" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>&#167;1. </b>The following mechanism may become more sophisticated later.
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<span class="identifier-syntax">NATURAL_LANGUAGE_WORDS_TYPE</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="identifier-syntax">default_language_for_linguistics</span><span class="plain-syntax"> = </span><span class="identifier-syntax">NULL</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>

<span class="reserved-syntax">void</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="function-syntax">DefaultLanguage::set</span><span class="plain-syntax">(</span><span class="identifier-syntax">NATURAL_LANGUAGE_WORDS_TYPE</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="identifier-syntax">nl</span><span class="plain-syntax">) {</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">    </span><span class="identifier-syntax">default_language_for_linguistics</span><span class="plain-syntax"> = </span><span class="identifier-syntax">nl</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">}</span>

<span class="identifier-syntax">NATURAL_LANGUAGE_WORDS_TYPE</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="function-syntax">DefaultLanguage::get</span><button class="popup" onclick="togglePopup('usagePopup1')"><span class="comment-syntax">?</span><span class="popuptext" id="usagePopup1">Usage of <span class="code-font"><span class="function-syntax">DefaultLanguage::get</span></span>:<br/>Article Inflection - <a href="2-ai.html#SP1">&#167;1</a><br/>Grading Adjectives - <a href="2-ga.html#SP2">&#167;2</a>, <a href="2-ga.html#SP3">&#167;3</a>, <a href="2-ga.html#SP4">&#167;4</a><br/>Past Participles - <a href="2-pp.html#SP2">&#167;2</a><br/>Pluralisation - <a href="2-plr.html#SP3">&#167;3</a>, <a href="2-plr.html#SP4">&#167;4</a><br/>Lexical Clusters - <a href="3-lc2.html#SP3">&#167;3</a>, <a href="3-lc2.html#SP4">&#167;4</a>, <a href="3-lc2.html#SP4_1_1">&#167;4.1.1</a><br/>Declensions - <a href="3-dcl.html#SP5">&#167;5</a>, <a href="3-dcl.html#SP6">&#167;6</a>, <a href="3-dcl.html#SP8">&#167;8</a><br/>Verb Conjugation - <a href="3-vc.html#SP6">&#167;6</a>, <a href="3-vc.html#SP7_2_1">&#167;7.2.1</a>, <a href="3-vc.html#SP17">&#167;17</a></span></button><span class="plain-syntax">(</span><span class="identifier-syntax">NATURAL_LANGUAGE_WORDS_TYPE</span><span class="plain-syntax"> *</span><span class="identifier-syntax">nl</span><span class="plain-syntax">) {</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">    </span><span class="reserved-syntax">if</span><span class="plain-syntax"> (</span><span class="identifier-syntax">nl</span><span class="plain-syntax">) </span><span class="reserved-syntax">return</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">nl</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
<span class="plain-syntax">    </span><span class="reserved-syntax">return</span><span class="plain-syntax"> </span><span class="identifier-syntax">default_language_for_linguistics</span><span class="plain-syntax">;</span>
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